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1. Ashley MS 154

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Ashley MS 154
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'Self-communion' and 'The Narrow Way': two poems by Anne Brontë; 1847-1848. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white wove paper and on one side only of a tenth. Watermark 'J Whatman/1833'. The longer poem, written on ff. 1-9, is en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847-1848
Extent:
1 item

2. Ashley MS 159

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Ashley MS 159
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''The Foundling'' by Charlotte Brontë
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''The foundling'': a tale written at the age of seventeen by Charlotte Brontë; 1833. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white laid paper. No watermark. The leaves have been bound by Charlotte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833
Extent:
1 item

3. Ashley MS 176

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Ashley MS 176
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'Sir Henry Tunstall': a poem by Patrick Branwell Brontë; 1838. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in minute characters on both sides of six octavo leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. The poem is dated at the beginning 'Bradford July 31st 1838'. First published in A. H. Japp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 item

4. Ashley MS 2469

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Ashley MS 2469
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'The Wool is Rising. or, The Angrian Adventurer': a volume contributed by Patrick Branwell Brontë to the imaginary history written between 1829 and 1839 principally by Branwell and Charlotte Brontë; 1834. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of eleven octavo l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834
Extent:
1 item

5. Ashley MS 158

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Ashley MS 158
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''Matin'' and ''Vesper'': two poems written at the age of fourteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1830. Autograph fair copies with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of a leaf 93 x 57mm. of white wove paper. No watermark. The present MS. originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830
Extent:
1 item

6. Ashley MS 187

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Ashley MS 187
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The History of ''Angria'': fragments by Patrick Branwell Brontë
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Part of ''Angria and the Angrians'', Branwell Brontë’s history of Angria (the fictional land he created with Charlotte Brontë), written between1834 and 1839. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of eighteen octavo leav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-1837
Extent:
1 item

7. Ashley MS 160

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Ashley MS 160
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French Exercises: translations into French by Charlotte Brontë; 1842?. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of the sixteen leaves of a quarto notebook. Ruled cream wove paper, without water-mark. The translations, four of prose passages and five of poems, we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842?
Extent:
1 item

8. Ashley MS 156

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Ashley MS 156
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''The Search after Hapiness'' (sic): a tale written at the age of thirteen by Charlotte Brontë; 1829. Autograph fair copy with many revisions and deletions, written on both sides of seven irregularly sized (average 60 x 90mm.) leaves of white wove paper, and on one side only of an eighth. Waterm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 item

9. Ashley MS 1374

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Ashley MS 1374
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'My Mouse': a poem by Christina Rossetti; New Year's day, 1877. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of cream laid paper. Watermark 'Joyn[ ] / Super[ ]. Signed with initials 'C. G. R.', and dated. First printed in New Poems, 1896, p. 178. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 item

10. Ashley MS 170

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Ashley MS 170
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''Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel'': a poem written at the age of seventeen by Charlotte Brontë; 1833. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of ten leaves from an octavo notebook. Ruled cream wove paper. Preceding and following the poem are two blank leaves apparently of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1833
Extent:
1 item